Expression Quotes

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Expression in words provokes thought, while expression in paint generates experience.
Kristin Abraham

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe

Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself.
Anawanitia

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.
Michael Bell

There is something of the essence of creative expression that informs and transcends all its manifestations and when you touch it magic!
Annie Bevan

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning. (
Gerald Brommer

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Expression is the essence of thought.
Tony Calderone

There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life.
Emily Carr

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one\'s model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
Johann Eckhart

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
Matthew Fox

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.
Naum Gabo

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
Georg Wilhelm Hegel

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri

Technicalities are but means employed by the artist in expressing what he has to say, and it is the expression that counts.
Edward Alden Jewell

Content starts with an artist\'s reaction to a subject and develops into an expression of their relationship with, vision of, and emotions and attitude toward their subject.
Joyce Kamikura







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